By Chamba Simeh
Abuja
A former member of the House of Representatives, Yola North, Yola South, and Girei federal constituency of Adamawa state, Honourable Lawal Garba, has urged his constituents to consider a candidate with the needed experience to represent them in 2023.
Lawal, a lawmaker from 2015 to 2019 had excellent representation for his constituents under the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He advised the electorate not to collect money in exchange for better representation as the result has devastating effect.
Lawal, the flag-bearer of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) hoping to return to the National Assembly as a ranking member, said continuity in legislative duties is the key in stabilising democracy and bringing development to the constituents.
While giving a scorecard of his last four years of stewardship, Garba said he has a verifiable record of the people he facilitated jobs in FIRS, CBN, Customs, immigration, Printing and Minting, police, military, and many ministries, board, and parastatals of the federal government.
He however said his bills, laws, and resolutions in the National Assembly are outstanding.
According to him one of the bill on the establishment of Police Trust Funds that was laying fallow for years was revised when as Chairman House Committee on Police Affairs he made sure that the bill was passed to law and assented by Mr President.
“I feel happy today that the bill will enable them to save money for intervention, for security purposes that will make them buy a lot of their equipment, to rehabilitate their barracks and built more is something that is making me happy because I did that in good faith.
” In my constituency, I was able to build about six health clinics and three computer centers one of which will soon be commissioned at Army Barracks in Yola despite being out of the house, my ability and competence are giving me the credibility to still work for my people.
“Sir, I have done projects that touched the lives of many people, and I lobbied for employment for them. This gives me peace, at least, I have done that to the best of my ability and if given the chance I can do more,” Garba said.
Barrister Garba who granted an interview to our correspondent in his Abuja residence emphasised that the foundation of lawmaking is on three things, namely, the ability to sponsor bills, motions (the process of lawmaking), representation, and do a lot of oversight functions-check mating the executives.
All these, according to him, connote a lawmaker having one on one with his constituents, sitting down with them to hear, know and listen to their needs, and convey them to the National Assembly for debate.
He stressed that the entire work of legislation is huge and needs someone with vast experience to go there and defend his people.
He called on the good people of Girei, Yola North, and Yola South to see him as the best for the job because as a one time their representative, and a lawyer by profession who bagged a master’s degree in law with his PhD in view, he assures them of an excellent job if they give him their mandate again in 2023.
“With my experience and my background I stand the best, I leave it for our constituents to put the scale to get the best among us , which I hope to be favoured over all the contestants”, he said.
He called on his constituents to consider NNPP and vote for him because he has a record and a deal of good representation in the past with them.
